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See that the plants are free from dirt or dead foliage; all should now be clean, 

 and of healthy appearance. Strong and vigorous-growing plants may be watered 

 with weak liquid manure rather freely. Carefully look for thrip and red spider, 

 as they increase rapidly, and should be destroyed upon their first appearance. If 

 a single plant only be affected, remove it from the rest, and cleanse it thoroughly 

 before returning it to its old quarters. This will save unnecessary fumigation, 

 give a plentiful supply of moisture. If by syringe, use but little force for fear of 

 injury, but the greenfly must be kept under by some means. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Seedling Rhtfbaeb. — C. E. B. — You should select those plants that do not 

 freely run to seed, as the most useful. Rhubarb that runs to seed as soon as it 

 makes its appearance in spring is worthless. You may sow for several years, and 

 not surpass the varieties already in cultivation. The objects to be obtained by 

 sowing are superiority of flavour, productiveness, and earliness. 



Cineeaeias. — A. B. C. — The seedlings, though both pretty, are not first-rate. 



Azaleas. — Beginner. — You will find little difficulty in the propagation of 

 Azaleas, Rhododendrons, and Oleanders if you proceed as follows. When the 

 plants are full of young shoots about half ripe, slip them off, trim away the lower 

 leaves, and dibble them round the sides of five-inch pots, half filled with peat, and 

 the remainder to within an inch of the pot with pure silver sand. They should 

 be kept close in a frame until rooted, and then potted off singly in peat and after- 

 wards grown in a mixture of peat and loam. Next autumn, the Rhododendrons 

 may be layered by making an incision half through on the under side of the 

 branch selected, and pegging it down firm in the soil, and roots will be emitted 

 from the tODgue made by the incision. Azaleas root quickly, if young grass-like 

 shoots are dibbled thickly into silver sand, with sandy peat below it for the roots 

 to work into ; they do best in a temperature of 56° to 60°, and must be shaded 

 and covered with bell-glasses till rooted. The Oleander will root quickly if ripe 

 shoots are inserted in phials of water and kept warm, and may then be potted in 

 a mixture of leaf-mould, peat, loam, and a little cow-dung. Rhododendrons seed 

 freely. 



Bbocoli aeter Potatoes. — Subscriber. — You ought to manure liberally to 

 take a crop of brocoli after potatoes ; and if the ground is liberally manured, it 

 will be in good heart for potatoes again, which always do best where manure was 

 used for a previous crop, and not at the time of planting. Broken bones, soot, 

 green refuse, and anything that will rot, may be turned to account ; and do not 

 forget to give the brocoli the benefit of all liquid refuse that can be got from the 

 house. Many people commit to the sewers what is due to the land, and expend 

 money in the purchase of manures, which are not half so valuable as that which 

 costs nothing, and which is wasted without a thought of its value. 



Liquid Manube eoe Roses. — T. Jones. — House sewage is certainly a good 

 manure for roses, and it is usually sufficiently diluted as obtained. It may be 

 used once a-week from this time until the end of August, after which we think it 

 best not to stimulate them. Use it a little stronger for a fortnight as soon as the 

 first blooms are over. Guano, 10 lbs. ; soot, 6 quarts ; water, 100 gallons, makes 

 a capital mixture for roses. 



Roses in Pots. — K. Z. — A frame, ten feet by six feet, with three lights, is 

 just the thing to get up and keep a nico stock of pot roses, including teas, because 

 you can give them as much air, sun, shower, shade, and shelter as you like, by 

 means of mats, removal of lights, etc. They must be plunged, and you wiil find 

 caal ashes or sand, or sifted gravel the best. Make your roses from eyes, as 

 described by Mr. Hibberd in his work, " The Amateur's Rose Book," and you 

 will have better stock than you can buy. 



